Kenya

Patrice Motsepe, president of the Confederation of African Football, says he remains confident Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda will successfully host the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations despite challenges in preparations. He dismissed suggestions the tournament could be moved elsewhere and said CAF is committed to working with the countries to meet key deadlines.

Ethiopia still routes 96.7 percent of its seaborne trade through Djibouti as Houthi control of Yemen's Red Sea coast pushes shipping volumes down 50 to 55 percent and keeps costly Cape of Good Hope diversions in place. With imports at about 15.93 million tonnes against 1.64 million tonnes of exports in 2025/26, the country faces higher freight, insurance and war-risk costs, while Tigrayan operations toward Afar threaten the inland road and rail links from Djibouti. Alternative gateways such as Berbera, Tadjourah and Mombasa-Moyale handled under 5 percent of maritime cargo.

Mary Maker, a UN Goodwill Ambassador who fled South Sudan as a child and grew up in a Kenyan refugee camp, says millions of refugee children are missing school and is urging world leaders to invest in education and jobs for refugees.

Egypt's water minister said Ethiopian politicians need to be educated about international rivers, rejecting Ethiopia's sovereign right to build dams on the Nile. Ethiopia maintains that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is a hydropower project on its own territory, citing international watercourse law, and now exports electricity to Kenya, Djibouti, Sudan and Tanzania, with the dam generating 52 percent of export revenue.